Reframing AI: exploring radically different ways of working

During the expert session, Karim Benammar encourages open-mindedness and exploration of new ideas through interactive activities and discussions. Throughout the session, Karim emphasizes the importance of challenging deeply-held beliefs and adapting to new perspectives for personal and professional growth.

• You’ll learn the essential differences between symbolic and generative AI - and why this matters for knowing what AI can genuinely support in your work, and where its limits lie.

• From text and images to code and data, we’ll explore hands-on examples of how AI tools can be integrated into your workflow - and what to watch out for along the way.

• AI won’t just assist with tasks; it will change the nature of work itself. This session helps you reflect on how your profession might evolve and how to stay ahead by adapting your mindset and methods.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), while currently a hype, is also a technology that will profoundly change the way we work. By understanding what AI does, in particular the difference between symbolic and generative AI, we can get a better idea of what AI can and cannot do well. We will explore how to apply AI in our daily work for text, images, code, or data, what the potential and pitfalls are, and how to begin experimenting with this. We will also discuss how AI could fundamentally change our profession and our sector. 

AI is a transformative technology that will radically change the way we work. In order to make optimal use of this, we will also need to fundamentally rethink our own work practices, and explore radically new perspectives.

Reframing

Are you able to challenge your own assumptions? Sometimes a radically different view can offer new possibilities and insights. For example, can you always rely on data? Do we really need to produce this report? Is the customer always right? Is input really the same as output? Is this model the only way to make things work in our company/industry? All our socio-economic systems are based on assumptions. In this interactive session, Karim teaches your team to look at issues differently in order to come up with completely new solutions.

Shaping The Future

How are we going to shape the world of tomorrow? How will we change the world, or improve it? We are usually engaged as individuals, but it is precisely as an organisation, team, or profession that we have a huge opportunity to make a difference at scale.

In this interactive session, we will use a global challenge as a case-study to explore different strategies to maximise our impact. We will then design concrete steps to turn our ambitions into reality. As they say, the best way to predict the future is to create it.

 

Climate Positivity

The climate crisis is the first truly global challenge for humanity. Our solution is mostly focused on doing less: fly less, eat less meat, use less energy. This will buy us some extra time, but it will not get us there. It’s not about doing less of the bad things, but about doing more good things. We need to radically reshape our world, become 'greenhouse gas emission negative' or, with a better word, climate positive. We make choices as individuals, but it is precisely as organisations or professions that we can truly achieve impact at scale. In this interactive session, discover how you can become climate-positive, and how humanity can thrive on a thriving planet by living fully.

 

Reframing Sustainability

Our concern for the future climate and biodiversity of the Earth has led to a global – if uneven - effort on sustainability. But what do we mean by ‘sustainability’ and how do we achieve this? One solution is focused on doing less: use less energy, eat less meat, fly less. This may buy us some extra time, but it will not get us there. Fundamentally, it’s not about doing fewer bad things, but about doing more good things. By reframing the scarcity mindset of traditional ecological thinking, we can develop an abundance mindset to achieve a thriving humanity on a thriving planet.